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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Muriel Porter Weaver |
| ISBN: | 0127390650 9780127390659 0012639990 9780012639993 |
| OCLC Number: | 25832740 |
| Description: | xix, 567 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Ch. 1. Introduction: Humans Find Mesoamerica -- A Geographic Area of Cultural Unity -- Early Human Evidence -- Ch. 2. Humans Become Farmers -- Tehuacan Valley -- Basin of Mexico -- Tamaulipas -- Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, and Coastal Sites -- Ch. 3. Setting the Mesoamerican Pattern and the Role of the Olmec -- West Mexico -- Central Highlands -- Guerrero -- Oaxaca -- The Olmec -- Great Preclassic Ceramic Traditions -- Ch. 4. Monuments, Wealth, and Complex Societies -- The Basin of Mexico -- Teotihuacan -- West Mexico -- Tlaxcala and Puebla -- Oaxaca -- The Maya Region -- The Southeast Periphery -- The Southeastern Highlands -- Southern Maya Lowlands -- Tikal -- Belize -- The Northern Region from the Gulf to the Caribbean -- Ch. 5. Codices, Calendrics, and Maya Writing -- Books, Calendrics, and Writing -- The Codices -- Other Early Maya Books -- Time-Keeping: The Calendar Round -- The Maya "Zero," Numbers, and Counting -- The Maya Long Count (Initial Series) -- Deciphering Maya Hieroglyphs -- A Roster of Early Mesoamerican Dates -- Ch. 6. Teotihuacan and Its Neighbors: The Maya Kings and a New Order -- Teotihuacan -- Puebla-Tlaxcala -- Xochicalco -- The Nuine -- Oaxaca -- El Tajin and the Ball Game -- Central and Southern Veracruz -- El Salvador -- Guatemala Valley -- The Lowland Maya: A.D. 300-1200 -- Tikal -- Belize -- Copan -- Quirigua -- The Southeast Periphery -- The West -- The Usumacinta Sites -- The "Collapse" in the Southern Lowlands -- Southern Campeche and Central Yucatan -- Northern Yucatan -- The Putun (Chontal-Maya) and the Itza -- Ch. 7. Tula and the Toltecs -- Tollan, Tula, and the Toltecs -- The Postclassic in Oaxaca -- Chichen Itza and the Toltecs -- Ch. 8. Final Scenes: The Maya, the Tarascans, and the Aztecs -- The Maya -- The Tarascans -- The Aztecs -- Ch. 9. Mesoamerica in Perspective -- The Southern Classic Lowland Maya -- Teotihuacan -- The Maya of Northern Yucatan -- The Mexica -- The Tarascans. |
| Responsibility: | Muriel Porter Weaver. |
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